- CEO
- Hiroyuki Isono
- Full Time Employees
- 38,322
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Paper, Lumber & Forest Products
- Address
- 7-5, Ginza 4-chome Tokyo Japan 104-0061
- IPO Date
- Oct 15, 2010
- Business
- Oji Holdings Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of pulp, paper, and related products worldwide through its four primary business segments: Household and Industrial Materials; Functional Materials; Forest Resources and Environment Marketing; and Printing and Communications Media. The company produces containerboard, corrugated containers, boxboard, folding cartons, packaging papers, paper bags, tissue paper, toilet rolls, kitchen towels, wet wipes, disposable diapers, face masks, specialty paper, thermal paper, adhesive products, films, pulp, energy, lumber processing services, newsprint, printing and publication paper, and communication paper; it also offers plastic-free packaging solutions, cellulose nanofibers, and sustainable products such as biodegradable mulching sheets and recyclable paper lids. Founded on February 12, 1873, and headquartered at 7-5, Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Oji Holdings operates manufacturing facilities and sales networks across Japan, China, Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and India, North and South America, Europe including Austria and Finland, and Oceania.
In recent developments, Oji Holdings acquired Walki Holding Oy, a Finnish packaging solutions provider, from One Equity Partners in April 2024 to strengthen barrier technologies and fiber-based packaging; it signed an agreement in September 2025 to acquire Austrocel Hallein, an Austrian dissolving pulp and biorefinery producer, from TowerBrook Capital Partners to advance its forest biomass business; and committed nearly $300 million in March 2025 to seed the Oji Corporate Forest Fund with New Forests for high-value sustainable forestry investments in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and African mahogany plantations in Brazil. The company announced in November 2025 plans to establish a new liquid packaging carton plant in Dong Nai, Vietnam, targeting Southeast Asian markets with operations starting around March 2028, and to expand production capacity of cellulose-based press board for transformers by approximately three times by April 2029 to meet global demand. Amid its Medium-Term Management Plan 2027, Oji Holdings pursues business restructuring, including closures at Oji Nepia plants in Fujinomiya and Edogawa, consolidation at Oji Fibre Solutions in New Zealand, and withdrawal from low-profitability containerboard operations, while expanding sustainable products sales toward ¥2.5 trillion by 2030 and advancing carbon-neutral initiatives like biochar production and natural capital accounting.